And it wasn’t much of a disguise, as Muhammad Samir Muhammad Washah made little secret of his role in the militant Palestinian movement and its attacks on Israel.
Al Jazeera
Foreign Ministry slams Qatari-hosted event featuring Iranian officials and Hamas leaders as “a gathering of jihadists and their support staff”
When Christians or Jews are the victims, and the attackers are Islamic extremists, terms like genocide or terrorism suddenly become too “loaded.”
The Qatari outlet acted as a propaganda arm for Hamas, installing a dedicated phone line to coordinate with the terror group, according to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
After Israel targeted a Hamas terrorist posing as a journalist, experts call for an offensive strategy to combat the Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas information war machine.
In the war between Israel and Hamas, Al Jazeera has stuck to the narrative that Israel is a brutal aggressor. The network offers Hamas a platform. The reporting is manipulated in line with the Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood narrative.
Cooperation ranged from prohibiting the channel from criticizing Hamas to concealing incidents involving failed rocket launches, according to the IDF.
The confiscated equipment included a camera, TVU transmitter, tripod and audio kit used to directly transmit live broadcasts.
The Knesset voted 71-10 in April to give the prime minister authority to shut down the Qatari broadcaster’s local operations.
The Israeli military has provided documentation indicating that the two were Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in the Gaza Strip.
